raj patel
With a world food crisis going on, food policy expert, journalist, and author Raj Patel traces the causes from farm to fork, revealing startling truths about a greatly flawed food system that is dominated by a few, but powerful, major corporations. [1]
Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved, is an activist and academic who has been hailed as “a visionary” for his prescience about the food crisis. [2]
Raj Patel - Raj Patel holds a doctorate in Sociology from Cornell University and has worked at the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the United Nations. [3]
Raj Patel is a British -born American academic, journalist, activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United States for extended periods. [4]
We speak with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. [5]
He is a writer and activist concerned with land reform politics, development studies, and food sovereignty. [3]
Patel was one of many organizers in the 1999 protests in downtown Seattle, WA, and has organized in support of Food sovereignty. [4]
In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. [5]
Author of the international bestseller Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel exposes how the food market is structured between consumers, farmers, and a handful of corporations in-between. [1]
Haiti’s grassroots movement ‘ including labor unions, women’s groups, educators, human rights activists, support committees for prisoners and agricultural cooperatives ‘ will attempt to funnel needed aid to those most hit by the earthquake. [6]
Born in London to a mother from Kenya and a father from Fiji, Patel received a B.A in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, from Oxford, and a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics, and gained his PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 2002. [4]
How the U.S. Can Help Stem the Global Food Crisis - President Bush has asked Congress to approve $770 million for emergency food aid. [2]
#10 Bottled Water ‘ Bottled water sounds like it should be cheaper ‘ it’s 200 to 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. [...] And the price we pay for water doesn’t begin to address the longer term issues of global shortage for something that everyone needs to survive. [6]
Today, because our food comes from the sort of industrial market of highly processed food that extracts value from poor farmers and gives us processed, highly fatty food, a sort of fast food, as convenience food for people living in cities. [5]
Sources:
[1] Raj Patel | Speaker Profile and Speaking Topics
[2] Macmillan Books: Author: Raj Patel
[3] FORA.tv - Raj Patel Discusses Stuffed and Starved
[4] Raj Patel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe …
[6] Raj Patel - Author